Survey Says: Ante Up, Lawyers

We love surveys.  All these years working with lawyers and we’ve come to feel that data is boss.  Ideas are exciting, sure, but facts are everything.  And when it comes to market data on the legal services industry, year after year, we’ve watched figures weave a certain narrative.  Lately, it’s not a cheerful story. The […]

$1000/hour? Raise Standards, Not Rates

Deep breath: The National Law Journal’s Billing Survey just came out. As I read the article summarizing the survey’s findings, my heart rate went through the roof, I tripped while scrambling around for stronger reading glasses, knocked over a cup of coffee and…  All in all, not a great harbinger for a new week in a new year. […]

When Opportunity Knocks, Will You Know?

This week, Altman Weil released its fifth annual Law Firms in Transition Survey, which raises some serious issues about how law firms are responding to changes in the client marketplace. Survey respondents – a sizable bunch, 238 firms with 34% coming from the Am Law 200 – were in agreement that pricing competition is here […]